Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the future of computing
China blocked Manus CEO Xiao Hong and chief scientist Ji Yichao from leaving the country while regulators review Meta's $2B acquisition of the AI startup.
Manuel Kroiss and Ross Nordeen, the last remaining co-founders, have left xAI. All 11 original co-founders are now gone as Musk rebuilds the company under SpaceX.
Tencent launched ClawBot, integrating the OpenClaw AI agent directly into WeChat for over 1 billion users. The move deepens the AI agent race among Chinese tech giants.
Cursor's new Composer 2 model turns out to be built on Chinese AI lab Moonshot's open-source Kimi 2.5. The $29B company admitted it should have credited the base model from the start.
An AI agent on Meta's internal forum gave an engineer advice that exposed a large amount of sensitive user and company data to employees for two hours. The incident triggered a major security alert and highlights the risks of deploying agentic AI at scale.
OpenAI's ChatGPT now connects to Spotify, DoorDash, Uber, Figma, Booking.com, and more. You can execute real actions inside these apps directly from a chat prompt. This is the agentic AI moment actually shipping to consumers.
Turing Prize winner Yann LeCun cofounded AMI Labs after leaving Meta, and the startup just closed a $1.03 billion round at a $3.5 billion valuation. The company is betting that AI needs to understand reality, not just language.
OpenAI released GPT-5.3 Instant with fewer unnecessary refusals, reduced hallucinations, and a tone that is less "cringe." The update focuses on conversational quality over benchmark scores.
Sam Altman acknowledged the controversial defense partnership was "definitely rushed" while OpenAI published its safeguards against autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.
The Trump administration blacklisted Anthropic from the Pentagon after Dario Amodei refused to allow Claude for mass surveillance and autonomous kill-chain drones. Anthropic is challenging it in court.
A 33-year-old researcher published a speculative AI doomsday scenario on Substack. By Monday, the S&P had dropped over 1% and companies named in the report lost up to 6%.
A senior Trump administration official confirms DeepSeek used Nvidia Blackwell GPUs to train its next model, likely violating U.S. export controls.
NASA's Perseverance rover made history by navigating Mars using routes planned entirely by AI, powered by Anthropic's Claude models.
Nvidia is close to finalizing a $30 billion stake in OpenAI as part of a funding round that could value the AI startup at $730 billion.
OpenAI has formally asked U.S. lawmakers to act after alleging that DeepSeek systematically extracted ChatGPT outputs to train its own models.
Unity CEO says a new AI beta launching at GDC will let developers create entire casual games using natural language — no coding required.
Anthropic ships Claude Sonnet 4.6 as its new default for Pro and Team users — closing the gap with Opus at a fraction of the cost.
